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Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo), Parisian demimondaine, breaks with her protector (Henry Daniell) when she falls in love with young Armand Duval (Robert Taylor), breaks with Duval when his father tells her she is spoiling his career, finally dies of consumption complicated by a broken heart. For modern audiences this story lacks one element: surprise. Its situations, from the one in which Armand first shows his love for Marguerite by returning to her a handkerchief which he has kept in his pocket ever since the day six months before when she dropped it in a theatre, to the one in which...
Like the poor, the prophets and holy men of Dorchester are always with us. That crusader against the red menace. that protector of the young, Mr. Dorgan, gladly offered himself up on the altar of publicity for his cause last spring. Another doughty warrior of Dorchester now appears upon the scene waving a banner emblazoned with the glorious words: "It is perfectly obvious to anyone that the registration and voting in this city has been crooked for years...
...addition to the protector, which revolutionized battery technique, several football mementoes are on display. Among them are the ball used by the first Percy Haughton team which beat Yale, 4-0, in 1928, and that used by the last, victorious over the Elis...
...planted in 1935 about 80% have perished. But, Congressmen found that in this tree-planting scheme as run by the Forest Service there was no "pork" whatever. What was the use, asked Congressmen, of spending $75,000,000 or more to plant over a billion trees, if the natural protector of the prairies was not trees but grass...
...censorship has really passed all bounds," cried the Daily Herald. "Such dictatorship possesses a quality which can only be described as impertinence." "The cuts are obviously designed to save the Government's face," agreed the Leftist Daily Worker. "Is the Censor's job that of self-appointed protector of the Cabinet?" The liberal News Chronicle reproduced photographs from the film, cried: "CENSOR HAS DELETED WHAT THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS!" Less agitated was the arch-conservative Morning Post, whose editor had evidently not seen the film : "Two reservations occur to the impartial mind. First, any film out of America...